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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa's opposition leader claims the Prime Minister is too sick to lead the country and should resign.
Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi hit out at La'aulialemalietoa Polataivao Leuatea Schmidt after he returned from a two month absence in New Zealand.
In September, La'auli...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A health leader has labelled the latest Pasifika smoking rates "totally unacceptable", despite the New Zealand government celebrating them.
Associate Health Minister Casey Costello said in a press release that, over the last six years, the Pacific peoples smoking rate...
DIABETES CRISIS
Deputy Minister for Public Health Minister Rennier Gadabu says diabetes is a national crisis in the country.
The government paper reported Rennier Gadabu attended the World Diabetes Day earlier this month.
Gadabu said diabetes weakens Nauru's workforce and drains its health...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Pew Charitable Trust believes the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) needs to do more on port side measures in order to reduce illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
And getting transshipment in the high seas management also needs urgent...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt, has banned the country's only daily newspaper, the Samoa Observer, from all ministerial press conferences.
The move has raised serious concerns among industry stakeholders about media freedom as he...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Next week, legal experts from U.S. Territories will come together for a virtual panel hosted by Right to Democracy to discuss the recent statement by Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas that the Territories Clause, “rightly understood,” does not “...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has returned home after an eight-week absence for medical treatment in New Zealand.
La'aulialemalietoa departed Apia for Auckland on a private jet just days after being sworn in as Samoa's eighth prime minister on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa Ministry of Health has issued new travel advisories for all travelers entering Samoa, effective from the 3rd of this month requiring all travelers from infants aged 12 months and above, to have received at least one dose of a measles-containing vaccine at least...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoa woman in her late 20s freed herself after she says she was kidnapped, assaulted, and tied to an iron pole.
After members of her husband’s family, who were her alleged captors fell asleep, she managed to escape.
She reportedly then fled to a nearby household whose...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American sailors and personnel from nine other nations recently wrapped up a two-week exercise in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa as part of an annual U.S. Navy humanitarian mission. The sailors, along with personnel from Samoa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan...